This is a 2009 black-and-white German cinematography by Writer-Director Michael Haneke.Unfortunately(or maybe,fortunately) it is quite difficult to search for this film in Malaysia.Action-packed and Massive Explosion lovers,sorry,this is an art-film which most of the audience will yawn their heads off. In this story,the storyteller is the School Teacher (Christian Friedel),unroll the story from a 1st-person view.Set in a small northern German town before World War 1 stretch his despicable claws, a few curious and disturbing incidents happened. First is the doctor is injured when his horse tumble over by a wire hung between two trees,the farmer's wife dies in the sawmill when the rotten wooden board give away, The baron’s eldest son goes missing on the day of the harvest festival and is found the following morning in the sawmill, bound and thrashed with a cane. A barn at the manor burns down. The handicapped son of the midwife is attacked and almost blinded.Meanwhile, theres an almost innocent appearance of the children's behaviour.They roam around with the face of a live-free kid yet inside was bearing guilty of parroting their parents(or adults)sins.The narrator avoid any vulgarity and at the same time,reveals how morally bankrupt when people closed their doors behind their back.In fact,the narrator tried to explain the origin of Nazism which is lurking deep in their soul and hence,led to eruption of World War 1 and World War 2.That's the reason why the narrator refuses to solve the puzzle in the end. Indeed,the narrator only says that the events he's describing “could perhaps clarify some things that happened in this country”.He gives the right of judgment back to the audience and instead of a sense of reassurance.It’s not mankind that is evil, we would conclude, just a few twisted individuals.
Rating: 8.9/10.0
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